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Dan 3:15 — Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; [well]: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who [is] that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

ye hear		See on Dan 3:10.
harp		Kaithros, in Arabic, kitharat, Greek [kithara] the guitar.
sackbut		Sabbecha, [sambuke] sambuke, a kind of harp.
psaltery		Pesanter, [psalterion] a stringed instrument struck with a plectrum; probably similar to what is called a psalterium in Egypt, which Hasselquist describes as a large oblique triangle, with two bottoms two inches from each other, and about twenty catguts of different sizes.
dulcimer		Soomphanya, probably the same as the Talmudic [cuwmpown@yah (Aramaic) ( hynwpmws )] a pipe.
ye fall		Luk 4:7,8
well		Dan 3:17; Exd 32:32; Luk 13:9
and who		Dan 3:28,29; Dan 6:16,20; Exd 5:2; 2Ki 18:35; 2Ch 32:15-17; Isa 36:20; Isa 37:23; Mat 27:43

Correlating Passages

ye hear

Dan 3:10

Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:

ye fall

	Luk 4:7	If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
	Luk 4:8	And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

well

	Dan 3:17	If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king.
	Exd 32:32	Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
	Luk 13:9	And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down.

and who

	Dan 3:28	[Then] Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed [be] the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
	Dan 3:29	Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
	Dan 6:16	Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast [him] into the den of lions. [Now] the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
	Dan 6:20	And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: [and] the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
	Exd 5:2	And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
	2Ki 18:35	Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
	2Ch 32:15	Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
	2Ch 32:16	And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
	2Ch 32:17	He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
	Isa 36:20	Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
	Isa 37:23	Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
	Mat 27:43	He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

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Scott, Thomas. "Daniel 3:15," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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